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It contains a butterfly house, bird exhibits, as well as salt and fresh water aquariums. Towering over the Luisenpark is a 205 meters high telecommunication tower (Fernmeldeturm) with its rotating restaurant at 125 meters above the ground. The Spielwiese (2,700 m²), a large playground and leisure meadow, located on the grounds of the original race track, borders on a model farm with domestic animals enclosures, and a Chinese tea house.

Both parks are open daily; an admission fee is charged.The Luisenpark was built between 1892-1903, based on a legacy of scientist professor Dr.Carl William Casimir Fox, who bequeathed 20,000 Deutsche Marks in his will to the city of Mannheim for the making of a new park.

The donation of 1,77 million Deutsche Mark (DM) from the estate of Diplom-Kaufmann George, provided the financial foundation for the garden and tea house. The Pflanzenschauhaus (2,700 m²), a greenhouse and exhibition garden, is located at the site of the Palmenhaus (palm house) which was destroyed in the Second World War.

This amount was not sufficient for total financing, but formed a basic start.

At that time the park was extended to a size of 41 hectares by the inclusion of a former racecourse.The sales of 186,000 season tickets, which was not even reached by all federal horticultural shows, the number of 8.1 million visitors, and the removal of the Luisenpark fence, convinced the city council to operate the Luisenpark as city park with entrance fee.

At the end of 1892 construction work laid according to the plans of the Siesmayer brothers, Frankfurtlandscape gardeners.Conditions for the ascent of the Luisenparks for supraregional meaning was the resolution of the Mannheimer of local council from November 18 1969 to accomplish the Bundesgartenschau 1975 to develop the Luisenpark as well as the Herzogenriedpark.